外国文学研究 ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (2): 104-113.

• 东西方文学和文化的交流与互鉴 • 上一篇    下一篇

利顿·斯特雷奇对中国古代文明的审视与反思

谢雅卿   

  • 出版日期:2021-04-25 发布日期:2021-04-30
  • 作者简介:谢雅卿,北京师范大学外国语言文学学院师资博士后,主要从事英国现代主义和跨文化研究。

Lytton Strachey’s Examination of and Reflection on the Ancient Chinese Civilization

Xie Yaqing   

  • Online:2021-04-25 Published:2021-04-30
  • About author:Xie Yaqing is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Beijing Normal University (Beijing 100875, China), specializing in British modernism and transcultural studies. Email: xyqqd@163.com

内容摘要: 英国布鲁姆斯伯里学派核心成员利顿·斯特雷奇对中国文化兴趣浓厚,他在中国古代诗歌中发现了一种审美意义上的灵动性和对崇高友谊主题的关注,这与他作为自由人文主义者的审美伦理理念相一致。而在剧作《天子》中,斯特雷奇进一步思考了中国古代文明在新的世界秩序和西方现代文明冲击下的命运。斯特雷奇对古代中国的审视与反思体现了“中国”这面镜子如何映照出他作为一个自由人文主义者的困惑与危机,也揭示了英国自由派文化精英在20世纪初的矛盾立场与所处困境。

关键词: 利顿·斯特雷奇, 《天子》, 自由人文主义, 中国古代文明, 布鲁姆斯伯里

Abstract: Lytton Strachey, a key member of the Bloomsbury Group in England, had a keen interest in Chinese culture. He discovered in the ancient Chinese poetry an aesthetic sensibility and a concern with the theme of sublimated friendship, which conform to his own concepts of aesthetics and ethics as a liberal humanist. In his melodrama, A Son of Heaven, Strachey further reflects on the fate of the ancient Chinese civilization against the impact from a new world order and the modern Western civilization. Strachey’s examination of and reflection on ancient China not only show how China casts some light, like a mirror, on his confusion and crisis, but also reveal England’s liberal cultural elites’ own conflicting position and dilemma at the beginning of the 20th century.

Key words: Lytton Strachey, A Son of Heaven, Liberal Humanism, ancient Chinese civilization, the Bloomsbury Group

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